Amiel Weeks Whipple

Amiel Weeks Whipple (15 October 1818-7 May 1863) was a Major-General of the US Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Amiel Weeks Whipple was born in Greenwich, Massachusetts in 1818, and he graduated from West Point in 1841. He served as a US Army surveyor and helped with mapping out the First Transcontinental Railroad and with writing a botanical description of cactus. Whipple served under Irvin McDowell when the American Civil War broke out in 1861